The Ternopil Specialized Prosecutor's Office in the Defense Sphere of the Western Region has opened criminal proceedings following complaints of violations of citizens' rights at the Territorial Recruitment and Social Support Center (TCC). This was reported by UNN with reference to the Office of the Prosecutor General.
Details
Information has been entered into the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations under Part 2 of Art. 146 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (Illegal deprivation of liberty or abduction of a person). The sanction of the article provides for restriction of liberty for up to five years or imprisonment for the same term.
As noted by the prosecutor's office, the grounds were the results of a monitoring visit by representatives of the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights to the Ternopil District and City TCC and SP, as well as materials provided by the Military Law Enforcement Service.
According to the released information, about 28 people were in the TCC premises during the visit. 17 of them reported possible violations of their rights in writing. It was also established that among the persons in the TCC were citizens who, according to preliminary data, were not subject to mobilization. In particular, a man with a lifelong Group II disability since childhood, persons with mental disorders, as well as citizens who had actually reached the age limit for military registration. As a result of the inspection, five such persons were released
Context
The Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, stated that the Ternopil District and City TCC and SP have been holding people with mental disorders and disabilities for a long time. He added: thanks to the intervention of his representatives in the Ternopil region, 5 people who were not subject to mobilization were released.
Recall
Military counterintelligence of the Security Service and the State Bureau of Investigation exposed three heads of district TCCs in the Ternopil region for falsifying mobilization indicators in the western regions of Ukraine.